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VOL. 100 NUMBER 7
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1987
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
of the fund-raising drive.
Size Will Almost Double
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A%200,000 fund drive for ex-
pansial of Mauney Memorial
Library will be kicked off on
Mon., Feb. 23 at a 7 p.m. ban-
quet at the Holiday Inn.
William F. Davis, retired
Superintendent of Schools, is
general chairman of the
drive and Mrs. Laura Houser
is honorary chairwoman.
John Welch, Public Library
Consultant with the North
Carolina State Library
System, will be guest speaker
at the banquet. A slide
presentation will also be
shown and will later be
available to civic clubs and
other organizations to use in
helping raise funds for the
project.
The library plans a 2,700
square feet addition to the
present structure, which is
3,300 square feet. The addi-
tion will include a multi-
purpose room to be used
especially for the children
and young people’s pro-
grams, said Mrs. Mary
Louise Baker, publicity
chairman. The room will be
an assembly-type facility
which can also be used by
groups in the community.
There will be a new and
enlarged Carolina Room,
book stacks, children’s areas
and office space.
‘““The members of the
Board of Trustees have
already pledged 100 percent
support to the project, and
I’m sure the staff will pledge
100 percent also,” said Mrs.
Photo By Denice Talbert
PLAN EXPANSION - Members of the Mauney Memorial Library Board plan the library’s
expansion program during a meeting Monday. Seated, left to right, are librarian Rose Turner,
Mary Louise Baker, Edith Bridges, Laura Houser, honorary chairwoman of the fund-raising
effort, and June Herndon. Standing, board chairman Grady Howard, and Bill Davis, chairman
KM Library To Kick Off
$200,000 Expansion Drive
Baker. “It’s a large addition
and we hope we will be able to
do it quickly.”
Davis has announced that
Dr. David McDaniel will
head the professional division
solicitation. Working in the
industrial division will be
Carl DeVane, Rob Suber, An-
drew Milewski, George
Houser, Kemp Mauney and
Jim Potter.
The kickoff banquet is be-
ing underwritten by Kings
Mountain financial institu-
tions, including BB&T, First
Citizens, First Federal Sav-
ings and Loan, First Union,
and Home Federal Savings
and Loan.
Public Will Have Chance
To Speak On School Needs
By GARY STEWART
Managing Editor
Kings Mountain’s Board of
Education Monday night
completed its unofficial
discussions of school facility
needs and now will begin
looking at re-organization of
the grades structure and will
give members of the general
public an opportunity to
share their views.
The board has tentatively
scheduled a public hearing
for Tues., Mar. 10. The board
will begin discussing
reorganization at its next
scheduled meeting on Mon.,
Mar. 9.
Board vice-chairman
Doyle Campbell, in making
the motion to call for a public
hearing, said that many
citizens had expressed opi-
nions to him on the matter
and most of them had differ-
ing opinions. ‘I think we
should give them the oppor-
tunity to voice their opinion.
It may help us make a deci-
sion,” he said.
The board will consider
three alternatives, including:
Leaving the organization
as it now is, with grades
kindergarten through five at
yElementary schools, grades
( six and seven at a middle
school, grades eight and nine
at the junior high and grades
9-12 at the high school;
Continuing with a K-5 pro-
gram at elementary schools
and housing grades 6-8 at a
middle school and 9-12 at the
high school;
Or, moving the sixth grade
to the elementary schools and
housing grades 7-8 at a mid-
dle school and 9-12 at the high
school.
Of course, any such
reorganization would depend
on finding funding for con-
struction of new school
facilities and renovation of
existing buildings. That fun-
ding could come from local or
statewide bond referendums
or share of sales taxes.
Over the past several mon-
ths, Superintendent Bob
McRae has discussed the
costs which would be involv-
ed in bringing KM school
facilities to par standards. He
ended his report Monday by
discussing the junior and
senior high schools.
Without considering the
future of Central School,
McRae said, the junior high
needs 4,745 square feet of new
classroom space to replace
four mobile units which are
now being used for In-School
Suspension, vocational pro-
grams, math classes and a
bookstore. That cost would be
$284,700. The junior high
could adequately house the
eighth and ninth grades with
no further expenses.
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Former Coroner, Funeral Home
Owner Bennett Masters Dead
Bennett J. Masters, former
Kings Mountain funeral
home owner and Cleveland
County Coroner, was found
dead Wednesday morning in
his car which was parked in
the emergency room parking
lot of Gaston Memorial
Hospital.
According to Gastonia
police, he apparently died of
a self-inflicted wound from a
22 rifle.
Funeral arrangements are
incomplete and will be an-
nounced by McLean Funeral
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Gillie Falls Jr., 56, of Route
4, Kings Mountain, died
Thursday at Kings Mountain
Hospital.
A native of Kings Moun-
tain, he was son of Mrs.
Lallage Falls Holtschute of
Kings Mountain and the late
Gillie Falls Sr. He was a
building contractor and
member of Bethlehem Bap-
tist Church.
In addition to his mother,
he is survived by his step-
father, Clem Holtschute of
Kings Mountain; his wife,
Betty Wells Falls of the
home; two sons, Monte Falls
of Vero Beach, Fla., and War-
ren Falls of Kings Mountain;
two brothers, David Falls of
BENNETT MASTERS
Gillie Falls, Contractor,
Dies Thursday At Age 56
Johnson City, Tn., and Buddy
Falls of Shelby; four sisters,
Mrs. Jackie Ruddock of
Jackson, Miss., Miss Joan
Falls of Lumberton, Mrs. Kit-
ty Cobb of Kings Mountai-
nand Mrs. Diane Sill of Spar-
tanburg; and two grand-
children.
Services were conducted
Friday at '3 p.m. at
Bethlehem Baptist Church by
the Rev. Ed Sessom, the Rev.
Sam Murphy and the Rev.
Richard Plyler. Burial was in
the church cemetery.
Memorials may be made to
Cleveland County Hospice,
201 West Marion Street,
Shelby.
Joneses Are Mom, Dad
AWARD TO FOSTER PARENTS—Eloise and Oscar Jones of the Dixon community are
pictured with their daughter, Shandora, displaying the plaque, they received in ap-
preciation for caring for 42 foster children. The Jones have been foster parents 12 years.
By LIB STEWART
News Editor
Eloise and Oscar Jones are called Mom
and Dad by 42 children.
Although most of them have been adopted
now and some have returned to their natural
parents, the Jones kids will always be special
to this Dixon community family who have
been foster parents for 12 years.
Bobbi Lee, 9, a pretty redhead, sent them a
calendar recently. Bobbi, not her real name,
wrote; ‘Dear God, thank you for giving me
my Mommy and Daddy.”
Debbie, not her real name, a recent bride,
introduced her bridegroom to the Joneses
last week and shared with them some wed-
ding pictures proudly displayed along with
pictures of all the other children in the living
room of their four bedroom split-level home,
which includes a nursery on the first floor
which doubles as an office when there’s not a
baby in the house.
own for a period of growing up years, stole
their hearts and almost broke their hearts
when she was adopted as a toddler.
“I decided then she was my first and last’,
said Mrs. Jones, the mother of three grown
sons by her first marriage. ‘Then a voice
came to me telling me I was selfish. My own
To 42 Foster Children
Kati, No. 1 of 19 newborns they called their
sons, Ronnie Hawkins, Darrell Hawkins and
Keith Hawkins, were all successful. Oscar
and I were married Feb. 21, 1971 after the
death of my husband, J.B. Hawkins. Ronnie
was 17, Darrell was 16 and Keith was 11 when
their father died. It was a big adjustment for
Oscar, who had never been married. Why not
share our lives with others?”
Oscar and Eloise Jones returned to the
Cleveland County Department of Social Ser-
vices to ask for another child and fell in love
with their daughter, now 12, who they
adopted as a baby. Shandora, who also
shares her parents love for all the little ones
who have lived with them for a period of
time, is a sixth grader at Shelby Christian
School. Following Shandora there have been
baby girls and baby boys, all special, with
different personalities, and each needing the
Jones brand of ‘‘tender loving care.”
Recently, the Kings Mountain couple was
honored by the Cleveland County Depart-
ment of Social Services with an engraved pla-
que recognizing their caring for the most
foster children in the past 20 years.
What is the secret of their success as foster
parents?
“We just treat them as our own’’, says the
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